{"id":1211962,"date":"2022-09-27T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/27\/mali-players-fight-each-other-at-basketball-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2022-09-27T15:21:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T15:21:08","slug":"mali-players-fight-each-other-at-basketball-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/27\/mali-players-fight-each-other-at-basketball-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali players fight each other at Basketball World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div wp_automatic_readability=\"54\">\n<p><figure><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Malian players fought among themselves in front of the media at the Women\u2019s Basketball World Cup<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Basketball\u2019s world governing body has launched an investigation after a fight broke out among Mali players at the Women\u2019s World Cup in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>One member of the team attacked a team-mate in the mixed zone, where reporters interview players, after their 81-68 defeat by Serbia on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The result saw Mali eliminated from the tournament after their fourth defeat.<\/p>\n<p>As others interjected to break up the fight, the incident was\u00a0caught on camera\u00a0by Serbian television.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Fiba said: \u201cFollowing the incident, Fiba has opened an investigation. Once the investigation is concluded, Fiba will decide on any applicable disciplinary measures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Serbia\u2019s Sasa Cado, who was being interviewed at the time, looked visibly shocked, taking a step back as Salimatou Kourouma threw at least three punches at Kamite Elisabeth Dabou.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament in Sydney has been hugely frustrating for the Malians, who are one of two sides at the 12-team finals that are yet to win a game, following previous losses against\u00a0Japan,\u00a0hosts\u00a0Australia\u00a0and France.<\/p>\n<p>Mali are only playing in the tournament after African champions Nigeria, who beat their fellow West Africans in last year\u2019s Women\u2019s Afrobasket, were withdrawn from the tournament by their government owing to issues in Nigerian basketball.<\/p>\n<p>Malian basketball has also faced considerable challenges in recent times, with a report in 2021 outlining\u00a0\u2018decades\u2019 of sexual abuse\u00a0in the country\u2019s women\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>The report was commissioned by Fiba, which cleared its president \u2013 Malian Hamane Niang \u2013 of neglecting the abuse while he led the Malian basketball federation between 1999 and 2007.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"8budpg0H_PM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kasiebo Tau At 1:55PM on Adom TV (27-9-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8budpg0H_PM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malian players fought among themselves in front of the media at the Women\u2019s Basketball World Cup Basketball\u2019s world governing body has launched an investigation after a fight broke out among Mali players at the Women\u2019s World Cup in Australia. One member of the team attacked a team-mate in the mixed zone, where reporters interview players, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1211962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}